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1 Reform in American Culture 1820 - 1860
To change or not to change, that is the question 2,3,4,9,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,32,34,58,62,67,69 Essay 4, 9

2 Education William H. McGuffey Noah Webster Emma Willard
McGuffey Readers-Grade school books morality, patriotism and idealism Noah Webster American Dictionary of the English Languagestandardized American English Emma Willard the first American woman publicly to support higher education for women

3 Education Cont’ Horace Mann
The father of American public school education to increase the availability and quality of free, nondenominational public schools morality and discipline tax supported public schools

4 British Isles (Ireland) Northern Europe (Germany)
Immigration British Isles (Ireland) failure of the potato crop Northern Europe (Germany) Ship technology improvements The South attracted the least number

5 Immigration Cont’ Poorer immigrants lived in the cities while those with some money farmed in the West Nativism (Anti Immigration) The formation of the Know Nothing party Anti-Catholicism

6 Second Great Awakening 1820’s
Characteristics Reaction against the growing liberalism of religion Revival meetings and traveling circuit riders. Charles Grandison Finney & Peter Cartwright Led to greater church membershipPresbyterian & Methodist Led to reform movements:Abolition, Temperance

7 Second Great Awakening Cont’
Burned over district 1830’s Site of numerous upstate New York revival meetings

8 Women Cult of Domesticity Moral leader and educator of the family
Traditional role of woman-Republican Motherhood Industrialization emphasized differences between men and women

9 Women Cult of True Womanhood
Break away from homemaker role and seek greater rights for women Voting Participation in reform movements: temperance and abolition Led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

10 Women Cont’ Seneca Falls Convention -1848 “women’s rights convention
Declaration of Sentiments: “All men and women are created equal” This movement was overshadowed by political events, but was the beginning of the women’s movement

11 Wanted to perfect society
Utopian Societies Wanted to perfect society New Harmony: Robert Owen 1825 Brook Farm 1841: Transcendentalist society Shakers: 1770’s- Religious community led by Mother Ann Lee

12 Utopian Societies The Oneida Community 1811
believed it liberated women from the demands of male "lust" traditional bonds of family eugenics eventually became a dominant manufacturer of silver

13 Temperance (no booze) German and Irish immigrants often opposed Advocated the legal prohibition of alcohol Protestant clergymen leaders Most popular Jacksonian era reform movements

14 Penal Institutions Dorthea Dix Discovery of the confinement of the mentally ill in local jails Prisons and asylums reform

15 Abolitionist Movement
Slavery to the forefront of the reform movement overshadow the others after 1830

16 Abolitionist Movement Cont’
William Lloyd Garrison and the American Antislavery Society Immediate emancipation of slaves with compensation to owners The Liberator Harriet Beecher Stowe –Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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